Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 2 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 3 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 4 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 5 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 6 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 7 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 8 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 9 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 10 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 11 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 12 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 13 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 14 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 15 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 16 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 17 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 18 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 19 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 20 | She tried to feed it with a little warm milk , but there was no swallowing response . |
| 21 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 22 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 23 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 24 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 25 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 26 | The conductress tried to console her with a glass of sweet , strong tea but without much success . |
| 27 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 28 | Mr Roberts said when the men were arrested , Angela Wolfe , 18 , of Thompson Street West , Darlington , Drummond 's girlfriend took £14,267 to Newcastle where she tried to put it in a safety deposit box . |
| 29 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 30 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |